East fit smoke alarm

Advantages: No need to keep replacing batteries
Disadvantages: You need a suitable light fitting in the right place.

...I am sure we all know that smoke alarms for the home are a great idea but unless you live in a new home and have one wired in then you need to remember to replace the batteries regularly. My smoke alarms are now quite elderly (20 years+) so I started looking at the options. I discovered that there are more than just one type of smoke alarm. There are two basic systems according to the Fire Service: ?Ionisation: These are the cheapest and cost very little to purchase. They are very sensitive to small particles of smoke produced by flaming fires, such as chip pans, and will detect this type of fire before the smoke gets too thick. They are marginally less sensitive to slow burning and smouldering fires which give off larger quantities of smoke before flaming occurs. ?Optical: These are more expensive but more effective at detecting...

laramax 15.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Fire Angel Plug-in Smoke Alarm

THE KIDDE SMOKE ALARM - A LIFE SAVER

Advantages: Saves yours and your families life. Easy to install
Disadvantages: None that i can think of.

...Since moving house, I thought it was time to take the bull by the horns at protecting me, the wife and children against smoke and fire. Whilst down at my local B & Q, they were selling, the KIDDE smoke alarm for £4.99. I thought that this was a very good deal, especially as it could save your life. The kidde smoke alarm is designed to detect combustion using the ionisation technique. It contains 0.9 microcurie of Americium 241, which apparently is a radioactive material. The smoke alarm uses an extremely small amount of radioactive element in the ionisation chamber. In the manual that you receive with the detector, it explains fairly easily how to set the detector up along with where you should locate it. - You should locate the first alarm (as it is recommended that you buy more than one) in the immediate area...

sonic1971 16.10.2002 · Read review
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Review of Kiddie Smoke & Fire Alarm

The piece of mind alarm

Advantages: Easy to use.
Disadvantages: Watch out for the box settings

...We purchased our Wicks wire free alarm when we moved into our new house three years ago, having been burgaled two years previously at our former address i needed something to give me piece of mind having two young children in the house (i became a bit of a basket case for a while after, and have developed ocd since!!) The alarm came with a keypad that has to be near a plug socket and plugged in at all times, although there is a solar battery in the outside box in case of power cuts. You also get as part of the basic package two room sensors that if placed in the correct part of the room ie, the corner, scans 180 degrees round the room to detect movement. You also have three door sensors that detect the doors being opened. I would like to say that it was extremely easy to install, but i didn't do it myself my dad and uncle are...

sarahbarrow 07.06.2007 (04.03.2008) · Read review
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Review of Wickes Wire Free Alarm System

Alarming thought

Advantages: Life saving
Disadvantages: goes off for no apparent reason

...It's an alarming thought that someone dies every day due to the fact they never had a smoke alarm fitted. Another reason for this is the removal of the devices' battery, or indeed a flat battery. It is to this end that our local council comes round a check on a regular basis. If you do have a smoke alarm fitted and it tends to beep now and then, this could be an indication the battery needs replaced. Most fires start at night and if you do not have an alarm fitted your chances of survival are virtually Zero. Fire is not the main killer in accidents like this. If you have no alarm and are asleep, it's the smoke that's going to get you first. Not a nice way to go, but you can give yourself a fighting chance if you BUY A SMOKE ALARM. We have two smoke alarms in our house, and there are many occasions when I felt like breaking them...

donf18 02.07.2005 · Read review
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Review of Smoke Alarms in General

Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires

Advantages: Great music
Disadvantages: Disadvantages?!

...Here's a debut helping from one of Radio One's favourite bands in the world right now; Friendly Fires. Resonating from St. Albans, Radio One would have you believe they're set for world domination. Far be it from me to be the critic here, but here we go... Released originally in September last year, it's due for re-release at the end of August, with the addition of some new material including the brand new track "Kiss of Life". This original outing however consists of ten dance-punk/synth-pop/whatever the new term is kind of tracks that are, even on first listen, pleasant listening pleasure. Having recently been nominated for this year's Mercury Music Prize, opening track "Jump in the Pool" showcases just why they have been. It's sound is somewhat unique and unheard of. Combining big drums from the streets of the Rio carnival...

carl.mcqueen 31.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Friendly Fires [Digipak] - Friendly Fires

Playing with Fire

Advantages: still a big fan of this series after reading this, I love the characters
Disadvantages: It takes forever to get into and was too drawn out at the beginning. Not as good as the first!

...The late Stieg Larsson's second book in the Millennium series, "The Girl Who played with Fire" is more focussed on it's Introverted and mysterious computer hacker heroine, Lisbeth Salander. Salander and Millenniums magazine's publisher Mikael Blomkvist are once again reunited (or rather linked) by a chain of events caused by the intended publication of facts regarding the sex trade in Sweden which would expose many important men from journalists to police officers. Before the publication can go ahead and before Salander can exert her own brand of justice, three people are murdered and forensic evidence puts Salander right in the frame. Before long, there is a nationwide manhunt for Lisbeth and only a handful of people including Blomkvist believe in her innocence. But Lisbeth cannot be traced and when she does make contact...

burtybookworm 20.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson

Smoke alarm and pendant light in one - fantastic

Advantages: Barely noticeable looks, no batteries to change, illuminates lights to help escape
Disadvantages: May suddenly turn the bedroom light on at 2am if there's a power cut

...light on. And it cannot be switched off until power is restored! If you have multiple Housesafe alarms, they can all be linked together so that if one is activated, they all sound the alarm. Good if for example a fire starts in the living room and sets off the living room alarm, it will then automatically set off the upstairs alarms too so that anyone sleeping upstairs is alerted of a fire at an early stage to enable them to escape. The booklet doesn't give a decibel rating for the alarm but it does have an adjustable volume and it is loud enough to wake me up straight away, when the volume is at it's middle setting. What the booklet does say though is that for maximum protection a smoke alarm should be installed in every room in the house, except for bathrooms and kitchens. The alarms are £24.99 at www.house-safe.co.uk, but I...

Pip2002 14.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Housesafe Smoke Alarm

Silent Alarm

Advantages: The true revival of Joy Division-esque music
Disadvantages: Tracks are somewhat too similar at times

...Bloc Party's debut album, 'Silent Alarm' arrived in mid Feb 2005 to critical acclaim as the possible answer for the next Joy Division, and it's clear to see why. The first thing you can note is the 'indie' feel, and the drum beats that are reminiscent of Joy Division at their brief yet best time. The guitars seemed to have picked up their own unique sound as well, and Kele Okereke's vocals are strong, and something Damon Albarn-like about them. The opening track 'Like Eating Glass' is an excellent starting point, and could quite easily be a single at some point. The musical elements here are an excellent indication of what is to follow throughout the album. 'Helicopter' is one of the albums highlights, and proof of some of the catchy and exciting guitar riffs on the album. Released as a single, it is certainly a song that will...

CarlMcQ 05.04.2005 · Read review
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Review of Silent Alarm - Bloc Party

Cause for Alarm? Nothing to get worked up about

Advantages: I'll get back to you
Disadvantages: Under-developed characters, lack of realism, no suspense

...control and killed the child. I had previously read and enjoyed one of Erica Spindler?s novels and when I accepted ?Cause for Alarm? from a friend, I had assumed that this one would involve the same central characters. In actual fact this is a stand alone novel and does not use characters from Spindler?s other novels although, like her other novels, it is set in the New Orleans area. Disappointingly the setting is neither here nor there as it has no particular relevance to the story, nor does it successfully capture the essence of that fine southern city in spite of occasional reference to the grand houses associated with New Orleans area. After a couple of chapters I realised that ?Cause for Alarm? didn?t feature the characters I?d met in the other Spindler novel I?d read and so I turned to the back cover blurb. Curiously...

fizzytom 02.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Cause for Alarm - Erica Spindler

Fiction on fire

Advantages: another book from a fantastic auhor
Disadvantages: none

...Daughters of fire is written by Barbara Erskine, bestselling author of Lady of Hay. This book is remarkably written combining both present day Britain with Britain in the Roman times. This book cleverly shifts from past to present. Cartimandua (one of the two main ladies in the book also known as Carta) is introduced to the reader as a young girl who's destiny is to rule her own tribe, the Brigantes. She has to conquer invaders, deal with death, survive miscarriages and most poignantly fight against a deadly curse set in revenge from a dangerous woman. In present day Edinburgh, we are introduced to Viv Lloyd Rees (the other main lady in this book); a historian who has written a book about Carta. Following her study of the Celtic queen she begins to have visions of Carta and her life: growing up from an innocent young girl - to...

123me 17.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of Daughters of Fire - Barbara Erskine